As the United States and Israel continue to attack Iranian nuclear facilities, Tehran's Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) slammed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as biased.
The IAEA’s silence regarding the US and Israeli attacks on nuclear facilities used for peaceful purposes is “not merely inaction but clear complicity with the perpetrators,” the AEOI said in a post on X, decrying this "historic negligence" as eroding the agency's "little remaining credibility."
Iran has sent several letters of protest to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, pointing this out, the post said.
Iran has repeatedly denied seeking nuclear weapons and stated that its nuclear programme serves purely peaceful purposes.
The AEOI had already strongly condemned the IAEA and Grossi for their passivity following the US-Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June last year.
In response, the Iranian parliament even passed a law suspending cooperation with the IAEA and allowing inspectors only very limited access to the country. It also declared Grossi persona non grata.
But a resolution to the long-running dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme is highly unlikely without the active involvement of the IAEA, observers say.
